20 Replies to "ELECTION RESULTS: Here's who's winning, after the first count"

Reluctantly glad Durkan won. Choosing between Moon and her was like choosing between the Taliban or North Korea. Moon was incompetant, looked uncomfortable in front of a camera, and sounded like she didn’t believe what she said.

I am relieved that Moon will not win (anytime I see “activist” in a candidate’s bio, I vote no) but I am not optimistic Durkan will be an improvement on what has passed for leadership in that position recently. Seattle mayors have gotten “progressively” worse over the last two decades, I hope Durkan can reverse the trend.

I’m very relieved Seattle voters rejected Moon and Grant. We don’t need any more amateurs or economic illiterates in charge. Hopefully this signals the voters of the city turning away socialism, and then we can get rid of Sawant, Herbold, and O’Brien in 2019.

And what makes you think that, WSS79? And what exactly is “affordable?” FWIW: No such “right” exists for “affordable” housing. 100% myth and empty promise propped up by the likes of Durkan, Moon and every other progressive in this town (who, by the way, are helping making this town more expensive to live in via their policies). No one has the “right” to live where they want; one lives where one can afford. If one can’t afford to live where one wants, move—aka: migrate—to another area. Painful and cold, but honest and an economic reality.

I never argued public policy doesn’t create or have good things, so please don’t misrepresent what I said. Those are all things the overwhelming majority agrees upon. Affordable housing, again, is a myth, a pipedream that artificially deflates the market, which is not a benefit to the majority. And no, capitalism doesn’t suck; it continues to be the best economic system in the history of mankind , creating more economic wealth and opportunity across an incredibly wide spectrum.

Seattle is becoming expensive because of economic growth … which is something that can’t (and shouldn’t) be stopped. More high paying jobs means more people with the means to bid up housing prices. The far-left crowd lead by Sawant and Moon, et al, think there is some government-imposed solution like taxation or regulation that can prevent, much less reverse this trend. Such thinking is remarkably misguided.

I wish I had a solution. I worry about my kids being able to afford to live here. I see the endemic problem of lower income folks being pushed out. But – as a card-carrying D – I also know that the “solutions” being offered by Sawant and so on are silly and doomed to fail. Basic education on economic realities reveals such to be true.

I don’t know if Durkan will do much. But I’m grateful she won as the better alternative to Moon.

I’m so sad for Seattle. Mostly it’s become a mirror image of San Francisco with the same result of killing off the hard-working middle class. Seattle used to be the northwest’s emerald gem full of vitality and an extraordinarily livable city, not anymore.

I just don’t see what’s so wonderful about an entire city becoming unaffordable except for those who make 6 figures or more. A neighborhood or district, sure. But an entire city? Come on. I don’t know what the solution is either, but there must be something. I realize that part of it was because there just wasn’t enough housing. More is being built, but it is “luxury”. Supposedly when enough housing gets built, the prices will come down on older housing. But it seems like what’s happening is older apartments, etc. are being sold to developers of luxury housing. So I’m assuming pretty soon everything will be “luxury”.

Why should all people making lower middle class or working class wages have to commute into the city? Also, if any of us need to use public transportation, it’s not as good the farther away from Seattle one moves. And since so many people are moving to those places, their rents and housing costs are going up too.

Why is it a good thing or desirable if, as will happen if things go on as they are, people not making six figures will have to either move across the state or become homeless? Who will do the lower-paying jobs if everyone moves away? Is it a good thing to have a huge group of lower-paid workers who have jobs but no place to live?

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